Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > North of England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the North of England is £69,692 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 382 376
Rank change year-on-year +55 -6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 12 8 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.046% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.048% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 44
10th Percentile £53,613 £53,625 £38,999
25th Percentile £64,289 £59,063 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,692 £70,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +58.97% -34.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £63,062
90th Percentile - - £74,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +29.03% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +8 8 £72,500 +3.57% 13
North East - 3 £69,384 - 1
Yorkshire +67 1 £70,000 - 4
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
3 8 (66.67%) Python
3 8 (66.67%) GCP
3 8 (66.67%) Observability
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Linux
4 7 (58.33%) Azure
5 6 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (41.67%) Grafana
6 5 (41.67%) Docker
6 5 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
6 5 (41.67%) Google
6 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
6 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (33.33%) Sentry
7 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (33.33%) dbt
7 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
7 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (33.33%) Pulumi
7 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) GCP
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (33.33%) dbt
4 4 (33.33%) Pulumi
4 4 (33.33%) Sentry
5 2 (16.67%) Datadog
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Django
2 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Loki
3 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) CentOS
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Observability
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Open Source
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
7 2 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Microservices
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Server Management
7 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (41.67%) Grafana
4 4 (33.33%) Ansible
4 4 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) New Relic
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk